The Inter-American Defense Board (IDB) held the Concept Development Conference (CDC) of the international disaster cooperation and humanitarian assistance exercise MECODEX 2023 at the “Casa del Soldado” in Washington, DC, from June 28 to 30 .
The second edition of the MECODEX exercise, which will be held in May 2023, will include training of actions at the tactical level in a simulated disaster scenario, after the MECODE (Disaster Cooperation Mechanism) protocols, processes and sub-processes have been executed. ), designed by the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CMDA) and already validated in the first edition of the exercise, held in February 2022.
Initially with the participation of representatives of the armed forces of Ecuador and Brazil, as well as advisors from the IADB, the CDC sought to establish the academic requirements and the design of the Scenario, define the command and control architecture of the drill, establish the analysis methodology post-action and propose a schedule for planning and executing activities.
